PATH OF EXILE LAUNCHES IN BRAZIL

(São Paulo) July 2, 2014 -
UOL BoaCompra,
the leader in emerging markets and digital goods payments in Latin
America, today announced a partnership with
Grinding Gear
Games to bring its popular, highly acclaimed action RPG
Path of Exile to gamers in Brazil.

With this partnership, UOL BoaCompra's payment methods will
allow
Path of Exile players in Brazil the ability make purchases in-game
using their preferred payment methods. To provide even further
coverage for the dark and gritty action RPG, the payments giant
will also monetize the game throughout Latin America, Portugal,
Spain and Turkey. The partnership grants UOL BoaCompra exclusive
monetization rights for
Path of Exile in Brazil and will ensure that local customer support,
payment gateways, and marketing through Brazil's largest content
portal, UOL, will be provided.

"We have an avid player base in Brazil, so we're excited to
finally be able to deliver the full
Path of Exile experience and introduce the game to a whole new
audience," said Chris Wilson, Managing Director for Grinding Gear
Games. "UOL BoaCompra understands the Brazilian market very well
and takes an innovative approach to deliver a high quality service
to the Latin American community."

"
Path of Exile is one of the most exciting RPG's we've seen in a while,
and their community is growing rapidly in Brazil," said Christian
Borneman, Head of Global Business Development for UOL BoaCompra.
"The game's features - the ability to trade, modify, build
characters, and challenge one another - is a perfect fit for
Brazilian gamers who strongly prefer games with unique and social
strategies; we're excited to bring such an acclaimed title to our
gaming community."

To celebrate the launch, Grinding Gear Games is offering an
exclusive pack valued at R$89 BRL ($40 USD). The pack will be
available to all
Path of Exile players for one week and includes:

400 Path of Exile Points ($40 USD)

Royal Green Frog - FREE

Divine Sign - FREE

Back Attachment - FREE

Premium Stash Tab - FREE

The popular online PC action role-playing game features
ethical microtransactions; the game is free-to-play, but never
pay-to-win. Playing as one of seven character classes, players find
themselves banished for their past misdeeds to the dark fantasy
world of Wraeclast. There, they encounter hundreds of species of
opponents laden with loot and mysterious artifacts as they explore
the abandoned continent.

Key features include:

A dark and deep action RPG

Unlimited character combinations with the game's gigantic skill
tree

Combine skill gems to create unique combat strategies

Explore a dark and gritty world rendered from a fixed 3D
perspective

Download and play for free, but never pay-to-win

Explore randomly generated levels for nearly infinite
replayability

Craft weapons, magic items and even end-game maps to become
more powerful

Cooperate or compete with thousands of other Exiles in a
persistent online world

Grinding Gear Games is an independent game studio founded in
2006 and based in Auckland, New Zealand. Its team members come from
various countries and have a diversity of backgrounds ranging from
artificial intelligence and software security to industrial design
and professional tournament gaming. GGG recently released its
flagship title, Path of Exile, and is committed to ongoing
expansion and new content releases for the critically acclaimed
game. You can find more information about Grinding Gear Games
at
www.grindinggear.com

ABOUT UOL BOACOMPRA

Founded in 2004, UOL BoaCompra specializes in monetizing
online games while offering and servicing more than 3,000
games across multiple platforms in LATAM, Portugal, Spain and
Turkey. As part of Brazil's largest internet company and content
portal, UOL BoaCompra's game portals aggregate more than 1.2
billion page views per month and has more than 120,000 POS across
LATAM. Several of the largest gaming companies including Valve, EA,
Riot Games, Bigpoint, SmileGate and Aeria Games partner with UOL
BoaCompra to bring their games to emerging markets including Brazil
and most recently, Turkey. For more information, please visit
www.boacompra.com and keep up-to-date on the
latest news at
http://www.boacompra.eu/blog/.

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